“Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?”— Ray Gwyn Smith Related Quotes “Don’t you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?”— Edith Wharton “Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”— Roland Barthes “Some people use language as a mask. And some want to create designed language that appears to reveal them but does not.”— Anne Deavere Smith